Kosmos

Culture, travel, fashion and culinary delights: the Kosmos pages of Lufthansa Magazin bring you interesting and useful tidbits from around the world

Finding socks under the tree is a huge disappointment … unless they’re something really special from a dedicated sock boutique!

From Psychedelic to sexy

Fancy tights, cute knee-highs and colorful children’s socks – you’ll find everything you need and more at the Sockshop Haight Street in San Francisco. While you’re there, go next door and check out Shoeshop Haight Street, which is just as well stocked.

It all began with the bright red socks that lent Mes Chaussettes Rouges its name. But although the Parisian boutique now carries all kinds of different colors, its purpose has remained the same: to sell socks to people who appreciate style. Très chic!

It takes two…

The best place to see and learn to dance the tango is Buenos Aires, where the sensual dance was born and where the annual International Tango Festival and world championships take place (August 9 – 22).

Towering talent

A master poised between Classicism and Avantgarde: MoMA New York is showing sculptures (photo: “Endless Column”) and photographs by the Romanian-French artist Constantin Brâncuși (1876-1957) through the end of February next year.

Big beat time

With their eclectic mix of house, hip-hop and indie pop, Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons, aka The Chemical Brothers, can still whip up a storm on the dance floor two decades on. The Manchester band’s videos and light shows are legendary. Catch them live in Munich on Aug. 17.